Katrien Thomas

Beschrijving

Oil on Linen – 120cm x 150cm – 2024

In this room of Villa Necchi, a quiet dialogue unfolds — between inside and outside, between what is visible and what is merely suggested. No people appear in the frame, and yet their presence is palpable. The space breathes relationships: between light and shadow, material and emptiness, memory and anticipation.

The painting offers more than a view of a room; it opens a world in which the boundary between interior and landscape begins to dissolve. The fine wooden frames do not merely outline the windows, they connect the inner with the outer. The sunshade casts its pattern on the glass — a subtle play of reflection and repetition, as if the space were quietly conversing with itself.

Through the large windows, the garden’s greenery flows inward. Plants settle in the transitional zone where exterior reaches toward interior. Light moves across the floor, over chairs where someone once sat, where perhaps warmth still lingers in the fabric. Who once gazed out of this window? What was shared, thought, or felt here?

In Room with a View, relationships are not overt or direct — they are quiet and layered. They exist between objects, between space and time, between absence and memory. The empty chairs seem to carry questions, the room still listens.

This space is far from empty — it is charged with connection. It reminds us that even silence is relational: that spaces hold us, remember us, and invite us to connect again. With one another, with a place, with what has passed — and what is still to come.